Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1887-03-28

Lake road people the worst Of the season
for railroad men. Yesterday morning a
snow plow Was stuck this side of West
Dauville and two trains were stalled be-
tween Walden and Greensboro. On the
Passumpsic road three trains were snow
| bound st South Barton aud the midnight
express did not go through until nearly
noon. The snow melted here about as fast
a il fell but there was fall of eighteen
inches on the hills and it drifVed into the
railroad cuts to depth of eight feet, just
moist enough to make il impossible to be
easily disposed of. Great country, this.
This mornings report is that no train has
come through from the West, though one
has reached DanviIle. Forty men worked
90 hours with two big engines and pillow
in getting through to Greensboro.
West burke.
J. H. Cheney has returned from his
trip u the city.
Myrtle Aldrich spends her vacation
with friends IN Suncook, \. H.
R. L. Huntley has returned and will
soon 20 on 10 his We>tmOre farm.
Mr.. Lord, the clerk for the Lumber Co.,
has gone 70 Conn, and his place is filed
bya Mr. Pa sons.
Levi Haywood has sold his place to
John Chabot for $500; possession given
at once. Mr.. Haywood goes to White
River Junction to live with his son Geo,
who is employed in the telegraph office.
Mrs. Thompson. mother of the late
W. NJ. Thompson, has been very sick
fOI the past week. She is over ninety
years of age and the terrible shock OF
her sons being killed in so frightful a
manner two weeks ago was too much
for her. She is not expected to live
many days.
J. P. Otis friends have heard from
him since he arrived at his destination
in Kansas. He thinks Kansas is the best
state, Clay county the best county in
Kansas, and Clay Centre the best town
in the county. He reports no snow, and
that farmers are fast getting in their
crops. He thinks of building this sum-
mer. Says that fifty buildings are now
being built in the town. A gentleman
took him to ride one day about there.
They rode forty miles about the farming
country and he says he saw more tillage
land than there was in northern Yer
mont, and the weather was so mild that
they rode till shutdown without their
OyercOats and no cyclones
Hard wick.
Quite Il number of friends were block
AIDED at Centennial House, all eager To
know when next train would appear,
but seemingly happy.
Glad to see A F. Walkers name
among those whom the president finds
lit to appoint commissioners to carry
into effect Interstate commerce law.
A petition favoring a stage route to
Craft~bury by Alder Brook route was
signed by every business men in town.
No question about this being the favored
route.
A pleasant visit last week from Mai.
Stafford of Morrisville. Time is dealing
kindly with him, yet those white locks
contrast strangely with those We ; often
gazed upon with pleasure at the front
twenty years ago.
DR.. Darling says it is almost impOs-
sible to get team out of town. The
DR.. drives out as far as practicable,
bitches 10 tops OF the trees, and makes
the rest OF the "trip on foot. Fortunately
the sick are not plenty.
The last known of Ira A. Shattuck
he was hopelesslY looking for snow
shoes in Walden, that he might take i
bee line for home. L. H. Warren being
more fortunate, found pair, arriving
home about O'Clock "Wednesday night
somewhat fatigued from q hve mile
tramp.
G. ". Bridgman has a sugar place OF
about three thousand trees, two thou>-
and of which he has rented out to two
rather short, but plucky men. George
will not allow them in the woods yet
aud take .he chances of losing his ten
ants. George expects TO grappe with
balance OF bush along in May. At that
lime look for sweet Invitations.
last Hard wick.
ST. Chandler has left the Foss tene-
ment and will work for his brother,
John.
I. l. Bailey & Sons of East Cambridge,
Mass, are negotiating with l. S. Orton
for his farm near the Street.
Rev. Mr.. Green of the Baptist church
is boarding with Mrs. Woods until his
family shall come.
The ladies of the village improvement
Society are quite persistent in their
efforts TO obtain money to apply on the
new hall.
Rev. DR.. Hulburt and family are with
Rev. E. E. Rogers family for the present.
Dea. j. NJ. Stevens has hired Geo.
Rudd for another year on his farm.
Geo. will move his family into George
Rowe's up stairs tenement.
East Burke
George Hubbard has bought his time
of his father.
Title Lowell is at home and expects to
stay until the LIST of May.
Merritt Walter is sick with dropsy-
Enoch Page is sick with typhoid pneu-
mOnia.
Rev Mr.. Roberts of Bennington county
is holding evening meetings in the Bap-
tist church.
Napoleon Harvey has taken possession
of the PrOuty place, and Walter Counter
has moved into the Darling house.
WIN A. Godding, who has been book
keeper for thirty years for the Lyndon
Mill Co., resigns the lst of April. He
has been suffering from sore ey e., aud it
is feared that he will lose the sight OF one
Of them.
ufton.
Belle Barker has returned to the Green
Mountain seminary at Montpelier.